You can see what I’ve been up to from my Guardian page. Mostly I get other people to do stuff. Then, if it’s any good, I claim the credit. And if it’s terrible I deny all knowledge.
June 2012: A blog about exercise and depression
Feb 2012: A tribute to the other great woman in my life
Aug 2011: Portrait of a Libyan rebel
Aug 2010: My piece on breakdown, depression and recovery
There definitely are ocmmon trends in elections across Europe, and the Guardian’s visualisation could have made it appear more clearly if they hadn’t made so many mistakes (e.g. France, where cohabitation’ governments are not taken into account, or Poland, which was somehow not red immediatly between 1989 and 1993). But beyond elections, how can we negate the role of globalisation, ageing demograpgics, environmental questions, emerging countries, new media, the crisis of the welfare state, immigration, and growing ethnicist-paranoid movements on European politics? All these factors shape European party systems in the same way, and they are not going to stop overnight. Saying that it won’t happen in our lifetime is a bit like seeing the glass one-quarter empty when it’s three-quarter full, I think. It’s already happening, and the role European political parties have taken in only 40 years is in itself a revolution. PES and EPP are most certainly going to have their candidates for commission president in 2014. If that’s not already europeanisation, I don’t want to know how far europeanisation should go for us to see it